Florence Nightingale: The passionate statistician

She pioneered the use of applied statistics to develop policy and developed novel ways of displaying them.

When Florence Nightingale arrived at a British hospital in Turkey
during the Crimean War, she found a nightmare of misery and chaos. Men
lay crowded next to each other in endless corridors. The air reeked
from the cesspool that lay just beneath the hospital floor. There was
little food and fewer basic supplies.

By the time Nightingale left Turkey after the war ended in July
1856, the hospitals were well-run and efficient, with mortality rates
no greater than civilian hospitals in England, and Nightingale had
earned a reputation as an icon

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